by Jim Winchester, IPANM Executive Director | Nov 8, 2021 | A FEATURED STORY, Drilling & Leasing, ISSUES, News (Public Access), Setbacks
FIMO (November 8, 2021) – The Federal Indian Minerals Office (FIMO) is conducting a Competitive Close bid oil and gas lease sale for 40 Navajo Allotments. This sale is scheduled for December 6, 2021. Bid packages are available for pick up at the FIMO office at...
by Jim Winchester, IPANM Executive Director | Oct 9, 2021 | A FEATURED STORY, Anti-Industry Politics, Cultural Properties, Drilling & Leasing, Federal Issues, ISSUES, News (Public Access), Northwest Region, Rules & Regulations, Setbacks
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) October 5, 2021 — Top officials with the largest Native American tribe in the United States are renewing a request for congressional leaders to hold a field hearing before deciding on federal legislation aimed at limiting oil and gas development...
by Jim Winchester, IPANM Executive Director | Oct 5, 2021 | A FEATURED STORY, Anti-Industry Politics, Drilling & Leasing, Federal Issues, ISSUES, News (Public Access), Rules & Regulations
Western Energy Alliance (October 5, 2021) – The budget reconciliation bill before Congress would, if passed with all the public lands provisions, drive oil and natural gas producers off federal lands in Colorado and across the West to other areas of the country...
by Kacy Brown, IPANM Operations Director | Oct 1, 2021 | A FEATURED STORY, Anti-Industry Politics, Cultural Properties, Drilling & Leasing, Federal Issues, ISSUES, News (Public Access), Northwest Region, Setbacks, State Issues
The Washington Times (September 30, 2021) – The 24th Navajo Nation Council has come out against President Biden’s $3.5 trillion social welfare and climate change bill because it bans new drilling outside Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New...
by Jim Winchester, IPANM Executive Director | Sep 30, 2021 | A FEATURED STORY, Drilling & Leasing, Federal Issues, ISSUES, News (Public Access), Rules & Regulations
Rueters (September 30, 2021) – The United States will hold an auction for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Nov. 17 to comply with a court order to resume oil and gas lease sales, the Biden administration said on Thursday. The auction of some 80 million...
by Jim Winchester, IPANM Executive Director | May 18, 2021 | A FEATURED STORY, Anti-Industry Politics, Drilling & Leasing, Federal Issues, News (Public Access), Rules & Regulations, Southeast Region, State Issues
Hobbs News-Sun (May 18, 2021) – Lea County officials want New Mexico, the nation’s third highest oil production state, to join other states fighting President Joe Biden’s moratorium on federal oil leases. Lea County is the nation’s No. 1 oil producer among...